Category: Health & Fitness

Feeling Strong

Posted on by Libby Withnall

 

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I have to say I love being strong (for a girl anyway). And I feel proud of myself for nearly always being the only girl in the weights room – mind you it took me a nearly a year to work up the nerve. I decided to do a Body Pump class today as I won’t be back in the gym for nearly a week and this way I got to exercise all muscle groups plus I did cardio by walking to and from the gym. I had a new to me teacher (since I haven’t done a class in over 6 months) and I know she looked pretty suprised at the weight I was loading on my bar (I mean I’m still overweight and probably look fairly unfit). I was lifting nearly double everyone else in the class and at one point during biceps one of the other girls who was struggling through the track with a slightly lighter weight than I had looked over a me and yells out “Christ, Libby” when she saw I had even more weight than she did. Now I have to confess I pushed myself through the class and am already sore (even after having a spa) so I can only imagine how I’m going to feel tomorrow. BUT I have nearly a week to recover and I LOVE the feeling of SORE muscles – means I worked really hard.

A change in the weather

Posted on by Libby Withnall

 Well, it’s the first of February, supposedly the hottest, most humid month of the year – the month when I REALLY don’t like the weather. Yesterday was shockingly hot but then a storm came through late and today I awoken to this view.

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Looks more like the start of Autumn – I even wore a jacket on my bike ride this morning. Still I know it won’t last so I plan on enjoying it while it lasts.  I’m just back from the gym – all hot and sweaty after doing my upper body workout. I don’t normally go on Fridays and I know why – it was rather busy. I’ve just finished my post-gym protein shake and am off to have a shower. Cheers!!!

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Clean Eating

Posted on by Libby Withnall

  

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While sitting at the computer and eating my very yummy salad for lunch I stumbled across a new magazine called ” CleaningEating”. My links aren’t working but you can find it at http://www.cleaneatingmag.com . It looks great and I can’t wait for my first issue to arrive. It was developed by the same people who publish Oxygen so it should be a good read.

Ready to get back to healthy eating

Posted on by Libby Withnall

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Well, while our meals have remained pretty healthy we’ve started to slip into “holiday” mode with biscuits, chocolate, ice-cream, etc. Only a little bit (since that’s all that fits in our small stomachs) but still not the best things to be having for snacks. I’ve gone through the pantry/fridge and we’ve used up the last few “treat” foods over the last few days and I DID NOT buy any more today. I’ve got my dinner planned out and tomorrow will do some work on lunches – now that the girls will be back at school I can just have a salad or veggie stir-fry for lunch.  I’m still losing weight and have restarted the Body for Life exercise program. I have LOADS more energy than I did before and still find I’ve got some left at the end of the day – which is a real novelty.